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Magnificent, Seven!

Seven of the world’s major corporations committed themselves yesterday to making significant reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions, a voluntary effort to combat climate change ahead of any government requirements. […]

You Have to Fight for Your Right to Green Party

Though Vice President Al Gore stressed the importance of farmland conservation programs during last night’s final debate between the two major party presidential candidates, the environment got little play otherwise. […]

Another Fine Mess

Fine particle soot emitted from coal-burning power plants causes the premature deaths of an estimated 30,000 Americans each year, more people than die annually due to homicides or drunk driving, […]

Cut the Crapo

GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush likes to talk about cleaning up contaminated urban sites, or brownfields, and he has said that as president he would push Congress to speed […]

Keep Off Trucking

A science advisory committee to the U.S. EPA has agreed with the agency’s assessment that diesel fumes are a “likely human carcinogen,” clearing the way for the EPA to release […]

To Itch His Own

A chemical compound known to cause allergic reactions in people is widely used as a flame retardant in computer plastics, according to research published in the journal Environmental Science and […]

Maybe Cheetahs Do Prosper After All

India plans to spend more than $1 million in an attempt to clone a cheetah, almost a half century after the animal vanished from the Indian subcontinent. Indian scientists plan […]

Deborah Bakker, Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives pavilion, EXPO 2000

Deborah Bakker is currently working at the Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI) pavilion at EXPO 2000, the World’s Fair in Hannover, Germany. Previously she worked for the International Institute […]

Should we be fluoridating our drinking water?

Back when I was a chemistry major, my professors told me in no uncertain terms that water fluoridation is a boon. It prevents millions of children from getting cavities. People […]

Polar Vault

After years of negotiating, the U.S. and Russia are signing an agreement today to protect polar bears in northeastern Siberia and Alaska. There are an estimated 3,000 polar bears in […]